Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

We are looking for a Frontend Developer who would be working on the bleeding edge of technologies. We work primarily with React, Typescript and Redux.

 

Responsibilities:

• Understand why a particular design was chosen and code accordingly.
• Will have to deliver clean bug-free unit-tested code with minimal guidance.
• Strive for continuous improvement by refactoring and applying best practices.
• Learn and adapt to new technologies as necessary.

 

Requirements:

• Must be proficient in React, Redux, Redux Toolkit and Typescript.
• Used Typescript for React Components.
• Unit Testing, Component Testing, and Custom React hook tests with React Testing Library.
• Integration Tests with Cypress.
• Data Fetching libraries like Axios, React Query, RTK Query etc.
• Should have maintained React Components with Storybook.
• Experience contributing to open-source software will be preferred.
• Used various CSS stylings methods like CSS Modules, LESS, SCSS, Tailwind, Styled Components, Emotion etc.
• Should understand Git.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated leadership abilities.

The developer will be responsible to build and enhance collaboration functionalities in our products while ensuring seamless user interaction in the platform. Our engineering team works on developing a range of innovative products to facilitate regulatory work flow of medical device companies. An ideal candidate is one willing to work in a tight schedule of a start-up and experienced in building magical user experiences and considers performance to be the key metric in the application.

Responsibilities :

• Develop new features using Angular 9/10
• Develop reusable components
• Write efficient and documented object oriented code
• Write extensive unit test cases and execute them
• Ensure responsive design of the front end

Skills and Qualifications :

• 2-5 years experience in developing web based applications and building product product from scratch

• Detailed understanding of coding and design aspects of Angular 9/10

• Proficiency with Observables, NGRX and websockets

• Knowledge of various Angular/Jquery packages

• Knowledge of Responsive Design

• Knowledge of WYSIWYG editors

• Knowledge of different performance optimization techniques

• Experienced in various data structures and design patterns

• Knowledge of asynchronous programming

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent education.

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
• Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp
• Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

 

Ideal Background / Experience

• At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
• Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
• In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

• AWS
• Azure
• ELK
• Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
• Google APIs
• Microservices Architecture Pattern
• NodeJS / ExpressJS

 

 

Job Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, the individual must have the following experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, computer science, and/or business, or equivalent work experience.
2. You have experience with developing, maintaining and supporting production applications which have live users using Angular.
3. You have experience with State managment and NgRx (ideally) or any other framework
4. You are NOT a fresh graduate with no production experience
5. You have excellent English speaking skills
6. Strong understanding of the DOM, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
7. 3+ years of in-depth experience with Angular (2/4/8/x)
8. 1+ years of experience with additional web libraries and frameworks. Preferred: NgRx, Rx.js.

Additional Skills Desired

1. Ability to be empathetic and form strong working relations with your team members.
2. Strong understanding of debugging and ability to quickly debug code, find problems and produce fixes.
3. Experience with Responsive Web Design (RWD) patterns
4. Experience with unidirectional data flow patterns (Redux, etc.)
5. Experience with RxJS or other Reactive programming techniques/libraries
6. Experience using ES2015 (ES6) and TypeScript 2.x
7. Indepth experience in using GIT and understanding of GIT workflows Experience in building and maintaining a reusable components library in angular
8. An excellent eye for detail to bring our products designs to life using pixel perfect styling, interactions and animation.
9. Familiarity with agile development practices (a/b testing,unit testing,continuous deployment,continuous integration,scrums) and worked in a product driven environment.
10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audience.
11. Proven ability to work with designers and other non-technical and technical team members (wireframes, rapid prototypes, PoC’s, white boarding)

 

What you need to have:

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds
Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogs (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5 M e-commerce stores built by Indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for Frontend developers to join our team. 

DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a great Frontend developer who is proficient with React.js. Your primary focus will be on developing user interface components and implementing them following well-known React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux). You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are important.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

REQUIREMENTS

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and sockets
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools
• Experience with PWAs and React Native is a huge plus

Senior UI Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior UI Engineer who has a passion for building mission-critical software solutions. We are looking for engineers who are unafraid of learning new technologies.
You will report directly to the CTO.

What will you work on?

Implementation, testing & deployment of enterprise-grade frontend system of our core platform. You will be responsible for leading a team of other engineers in guiding them to build our marketplace.

Who we are looking for?

● We are looking for team members who can work with all levels of management and clearly express their ideas and progress.

● You'll need to dissect complex workflows and create enterprise-class software solutions that rely on your programming skills.

● We want a leader who has demonstrated the ability to identify and isolate problem areas within the entire application flow, investigate the underlying cause, and implement solutions.

● Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

What you should know?

● 5+ years of UI programming experience with advanced HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax

● 3+ years of experience developing responsive & clean frontend’s in Angular.

● Extensive experience in consuming & working with HTTP RESTful web services.

● 2+ years of professional experience with commonly used Front-End frameworks and libraries, such as: React, Angular, Redux and RxJS, Ember.js, Backbone.js, Knockout, require.js, Handlebars, Mustache, Underscore, etc.

● Must be familiar with CSS preprocessors like Sass and LESS.

● Solid understanding of UI design principles and experience bringing them to life

● Thorough understating of routing, dependency injection, modular components, data-binding strategies, reactive software, handling load at massive scale, testability, and other aspects of good FE application design principles

● Comfortable consuming visual designs in Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, or Illustrator for translation into markup.

What if you knew would be a plus?

● Experience with deploying systems to AWS other related servers.

● Experience with development methodologies like CI/CD, Agile, Git, Jenkins, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

● Experience with building scalable Data Visulatizations

Responsibilities :1. Work alongside the design team to develop new features focused on user interface.2. Strong knowledge of web development tools and programming languages3. Strong knowledge of JavaScript frameworks and sound design principles.4. Write unit test cases for testing your modules.5. Familiarity with API (REST and SOAP) web services development and best practices.6. Communicate with backend person in order to integrate API's with UlTechnical Skills Required :1. Angular JS, HTML5, CSS3, javascript & web pack/grunt/gulp.2. Exceptional knowledge of web standards, CSS Preprocessing, CSS3-based design and cross-browser compatibility3. Good knowledge of Client-Server Architecture,

Design and develop scalable, front-end, responsive UX using SaaS based technologies
Leverage existing open source technology where appropriate
Solve tough design and architectural problems
Be flexible in our fast-paced environment
Work well on product teams with Quality Engineers and Product Owners
Be creative and willing to take risks
Strong developer enjoys writing code and tests
Strong front-end programming language experience: Javascript, node, etc.
Experience with web technologies: HTML, JSP, XML, JSON, CSS, etc.
Experience with SaaS scalable technologies
Experience with CI tools and technologies such as Jenkins, Puppet or Chef
Hands-on experience working in agile software delivery teams
Thrive in a fast-paced environment (think startup)
Strong analytical and organizational skills, and attention to detail
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

myU is a school communication and announcement tool. It acts as an internal social network for each school composed of students, faculty members, clubs and organizations. The app makes it easy to connect with anyone in the school community, and makes communications real-time and sharing fun. myU is ideal for a faculty member wanting to send a class announcement to students, an organization looking to promote its events and activities, or a student looking to ask about a missing homework, an exam date or to speak their mind to their peers at school. myU is a smartphone app that runs on iOS and Android devices, and acts as a third party cloud based service. The technology requires no integration with the school’s systems.